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Augustine - Conversions and Confessions (Paperback)
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Augustine - Conversions and Confessions (Paperback)
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A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of
Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies
Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know
most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions,
which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about
his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North
Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins ('Give me chastity,
but not yet,' he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed
heretical sect, his worldly career and friendships and his gradual
return to God. His account of his own eventual conversion is a
classic study of anguish, hesitation and what he believes to be
God's intervention. It has inspired philosophers, Christian
thinkers and monastic followers, but it still leaves readers
wondering why exactly Augustine chose to compose a work like none
before it. Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine on a brilliantly
described journey, combining the latest scholarship with recently
found letters and sermons by Augustine himself to give a portrait
of his subject which is subtly different from older biographies.
Augustine's heretical years as a Manichaean, his relation to
non-Christian philosophy, his mystical aspirations and the nature
of his conversion are among the aspects of his life which stand out
in a sharper light. For the first time Lane Fox compares him with
two contemporaries, an older pagan and a younger Christian, each of
whom also wrote about themselves and who illumine Augustine's life
and writings by their different choices. More than a decade passed
between Augustine's conversion and his beginning the Confessions.
Lane Fox argues that the Confessions and their thinking were the
results of a long gestation over these years, not a sudden change
of perspective, but that they were then written as a single swift
composition and that its final books are a coherent consummation of
its scriptural meditation and personal biography. This exceptional
study reminds us why we are so excited and so moved by Augustine's
story.
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